I would like to see PK get some seasoning as a hitting instructor first. He seems like a perfect fit for that kind of a job especially given the way he managed to improve with age by conquering his personal hitting demons where he would obsess over missing pitches and it would put him in a funk.

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Oh I don't know. Kingman and Dunn were very similar hitters. Kingman thinner and gangly and Dunn with a bigger build. Kingman could be possessed of a brittle and curt personality, while Dunn appears much more sociable. Both could hit the hell out of the ball. Kingman as a Cub once hit a one handed home run in Wrigley Field and I'm not kidding about that. He also hit this one.

In 2012 we went to the Trop Dome to try and break our 0-5 streak. Chris Sale and Matt Moore were locked up in a duel. In the 6th, the Sox down 1-0, Dunn hit a long tall rocket to right field. He just crushed it. I jumped out of my seat and said something like holy expletive. Me, dumbass that I was that day had our upper deck seats among the cowbells, when I could have had us with the friendlies along the third base line who cheered for the good guys all game long. Just say I sat down subject to some hostile stares.

Kingman and Dunn could hit some homers that you'd never forget but both much too one dimensional and subject to slumps and very bad outs. I give Dunn credit for hanging in there in 2011. Never saw anything like that since Steve Blass, and he of course was a pitcher.

The resounding difference in OBP and OPS would suggest otherwise. Both loved to swing hard and knock the ball out of the park, but Dunn's ability to take a pitch and draw walks puts him in a different class.

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This is 100 percent setting up for Paulie to take over as manager next year after Robin doesn't resign.

I certainly think a major reason for this is to have Konkero there to keep the clubhouse in order, especially in losing streaks or when Ventura makes a boneheaded decision, or to perhaps talk him off something silly before it's too late.
He very well may be there to take over. But I'd sure like him to put 3-4 years in the minors or on anther team's bench first.

Konerko would have gotten nothing on the free agent market since no team would have been dumb enough to sign him.

In the Tribune this past Sunday (can't remember which article it was, either by Haugh or the Sox beat writer), Konerko said the deciding factor for him to return was that he got a call from a 2013 playoff team expressing interest. That's when he knew he could come back.

In the Tribune this past Sunday (can't remember which article it was, either by Haugh or the Sox beat writer), Konerko said the deciding factor for him to return was that he got a call from a 2013 playoff team expressing interest. That's when he knew he could come back.

The resounding difference in OBP and OPS would suggest otherwise. Both loved to swing hard and knock the ball out of the park, but Dunn's ability to take a pitch and draw walks puts him in a different class.

I understand. I just don't put OBP on a pedestal. Especially for a hitter like Dunn.

And Ventura's team with zero experience won 85 games. He then acquired this "needed" experience, and the team won 63 games. And the funny thing is, the people complaining, have zero experience, so using their very own criteria, their opinions are totally worthless.